KCR Takes ‘Federal Front’ Talks to TN, Lunches With DMK Top Brass
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief along with some other leaders of the party arrived in Chennai by a special aircraft, following which they had lunch together. He called on former Tamil Nadu chief minister Karunanidhi and his son Stalin, who is also the working president of DMK.
K Chandrasekhar Rao had lunch with DMK leaders M Karunanidhi and MK Stalin in Chennai on Sunday.
Chennai: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is attempting to stitch a coalition of non-BJP parties ahead of the next year's Lok Sabha elections, on Sunday met DMK president M Karunanidhi at his residence here.
Rao, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) supremo, stayed at Karunanidhi's residence for a brief period while before proceeding to the house of DMK Working President MK Stalin, where the latter hosted him for lunch.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao with DMK leader M Karunanidhi.
The TRS leader, who was welcomed by Stalin at the Gopalapuram residence of Karunanidhi, later left for the house of the Leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, who also joined him in the same vehicle.
Earlier, the Telangana chief minister had met West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee as part of efforts to build a non-Congress, non-BJP third front ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Stalin had said his party "endorsed" the efforts of Mamata Banerjee to bring together various parties against the BJP.
The DMK and Congress are allies in Tamil Nadu and the two had faced the 2016 Assembly elections as part of an alliance.
Rao, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) supremo, stayed at Karunanidhi's residence for a brief period while before proceeding to the house of DMK Working President MK Stalin, where the latter hosted him for lunch.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao with DMK leader M Karunanidhi.
The TRS leader, who was welcomed by Stalin at the Gopalapuram residence of Karunanidhi, later left for the house of the Leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, who also joined him in the same vehicle.
Earlier, the Telangana chief minister had met West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee as part of efforts to build a non-Congress, non-BJP third front ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Stalin had said his party "endorsed" the efforts of Mamata Banerjee to bring together various parties against the BJP.
The DMK and Congress are allies in Tamil Nadu and the two had faced the 2016 Assembly elections as part of an alliance.